Daily Operations Briefing Wednesday, February 26, 2014 8:30 a.m. EST
Significant Activity: February 25 26 Significant Events: None Significant Weather: Showers and thunderstorms Gulf Coast states Freezing rain Oregon & southern Texas Below normal temperatures eastern two-thirds of US Heavy Precipitation/snow California Red Flag Warnings: None Critical/Elevated Fire Weather Areas: None Space Weather: Past 24 hours Minor S1 solar blackouts; next 24 hours minor R1 radio blackouts & S1 solar radiation storms FEMA Readiness: No significant changes
Disaster Requests & Declarations Declaration Requests in Process Requests APPROVED (since last report) Requests DENIED (since last report) 1 Date Requested 0 0 ME DR Severe Winter Storm February 21, 2014
Joint Preliminary Damage Assessments Region IV IV V VI State / Location GA SC IN LA Event Winter Storm Feb 11-13, 2014 Winter Storm Feb 11-13, 2014 Winter Storm Jan 4-7, 2014 Winter Storm Jan 28-30, 2014 IA/PA Number of Counties Requested Complete Start End PA 48 (+1) 44 2/18 TBD PA 22 (+3) 9 (+1) 2/20 - TBD PA 43 0 2/10 TBD PA 28 6 (+3) 2/19 TBD
Open Field Offices as of February 26, 2014
National Weather Forecast
Active Watches/Warnings http://www.nws.noaa.gov/largemap.php
Minimum Temperature Forecast http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/gis/images/conus_mint_day2.png
Precipitation Forecast 3 Day Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
River Forecast 7 Day http://water.weather.gov/ahps/forecasts.php?current_color=flood¤t_type=all&fcst_type=fcst&conus_map=d_map
Convective Outlooks Days 1 3 Day 1 Day 2 http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/ Day 3
Critical Fire Weather Areas Days 1 8 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3-8
Hazard Outlook: Feb 28 Mar 4 http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/threats/threats_ie.php
Space Weather NOAA Scales Activity (Range: 1/minor to 5/extreme) Past 24 Hours Current Next 24 Hours Space Weather Activity: Minor None Minor Geomagnetic Storms None None S1 Solar Radiation Storms S1 None None Radio Blackouts None None R1 HF Communication Impact Sunspot Activity http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/drap/global.html http://spaceweather.com/
FEMA CONUS FEMA Commodity CONUS Commodity Readiness Ren as of February 21, 2014
FEMA Pacific Commodity FEMA Pacific Readiness Comm as of February 21, 2014
FEMA Readiness Deployable Teams/Assets Deployable Teams/Assets Resource Status Total Available Partially Available Not Available Deployed Activated Comments Rating Criterion FCO 41 21 51% N/A 2 18 FDRC 9 5 56% 0 0 4 US&R 28 26 92% 2 0 0 NV-TF1 (Yellow/Conditional) NM-TF1 (Yellow/Conditional) OFDC Readiness: FCO Green Yellow Red Type 1 3+ 2 1 Type 2 4+ 3 2 Type 3 4 3 2 FDRC 3 2 1 Green = Available/FMC Yellow = Available/PMC Red = Out-of-Service Blue = Assigned/Deployed National IMAT 3 3 100% 0 0 0 Regional IMAT 13 7 54% 0 3 3 MCOV 55 50 91% 0 5 0 Teams deployed to: TX, OK & CA Region V & X: personnel shortages Region VII: personnel shortages & equip 5 not available transitioning/upgrade to new satellite system Green: 3 avail Yellow: 1 avail Red: 0 avail Individual N-IMAT red if 50% of Section Chiefs and/or Team Leader is unavailable for deployment. Green: > 6 avail Yellow: 4-6 teams available Red: > 8 teams deployed/unavailable R-IMAT also red if TL Ops/Log Chief is unavailable and has no qualified replacement. Green = Available/FMC Yellow = Available/PMC Red = Out-of-Service Blue = Assigned/Deployed
FEMA Readiness National/Regional Teams Resource Status Total Available Partially Available National/Regional Teams Not Available Deployed/ Activated NWC 5 5 100% 0 0 24/7 NRCC 2 362 92% 0 31 Not Activated HLT 1 1 100% 0 0 Not Activated Comments Rating Criterion Green = FMC Yellow = PMC Red = NMC DEST Not Activated RRCCs 10 10 100% 0 0 Not Activated RWCs/MOCs 10 10 100% 0 0 24/7